Australian state MPs pass unanimous motion: Donald Trump is a 'revolting slug'

A state Parliament in Australia on Thursday unanimously passed a motion that described US presidential nominee Donald Trump as "a revolting slug unfit for public office."

Jeremy Buckingham, a lawmaker from the minor Greens party, introduced the motion to the New South Wales Legislative Council, the Parliament's upper house.

"This house ... agrees with those who have described Mr Trump as a 'revolting slug' unfit for public office," the motion in Australia's most populous state said.

The house "condemns the misogynist, hateful comments" made by the Republican candidate about women and minorities, including the remarks revealed by media at the weekend "that clearly describe sexual assault," the motion said referring to the 2005 video released on Friday in which he discusses "grabbing (women) by the p----" and states that “when you’re a star, they let you do it”.

Had any lawmaker objected to the motion, it would have been struck off the list of parliamentary business. Because there was no objection, the motion was recorded as having been unanimously agreed to by the Sydney-based house.

"It's a great that all sides of Australian politics, from conservatives to liberals to Greens, agree that Donald Trump is a 'revolting slug' and completely unfit for public office," Mr Buckingham said in a statement.

"It's clear that all reasonable and decent people find Donald Trump's behavior obnoxious and that the world is hoping American voters reject his politics of hate," Mr Buckingham said.

The motion come less than a week after the publication of the 2005 recording in which the Republican nominee boasted of groping women. Mr Trump apologised for his comments, but also dismissed them as "locker room talk" and a distraction from the campaign.

On Tuesday, Australia's opposition leader Bill Shorten said that the Republican presidential candidate is "unsuitable to be leader of the free world" doubling down on comments made in May when he described some of Mr Trump's views as "barking mad."

"By his own words and his own actions, he has confirmed the worst fears of millions in the United States and beyond its borders - he is entirely unsuitable to be leader of the free world," Mr Shorten, who leads the centre-left Labor Party, said, breaking for a second time a longstanding Australian convention of avoiding taking sides in US political contests.

Prime minister Malcolm Turnbull, who in May criticised the Labor leader for potentially offending Americans through his comments, called Mr Trump's comments about women loathsome on Monday and said that “They deserve the absolutely universal condemnation that they’ve received.”